Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prospects for a settlement in the Middle East rise and fall as erratically as the Dow Jones averages. Last week the peace market suddenly turned bullish. Failure to agree on a Sinai pact would simply be "unthinkable," said an Egyptian official. "Let's get it over with," Israeli Chief of Staff Lieut. General Mordechai Gur added gruffly...
...Rumanian government of President Nicolae Ceauçescu, reports TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott, has secretly been looking into the possibility of buying modern armaments, including American F-5 jet fighters, in the West. Such a move, if it materialized, would be unprecedented for a member of the Warsaw Pact. The subject was raised by Rumanian Chief of Staff and Deputy Defense Minister General Ion Coman when he flew to Washington in March for talks with his U.S. counterpart, General Frederick Weyand. But while the U.S. would welcome a "protocol" or limited military relationship, it is reluctant to provide Rumania with...
...year. The man I talked to said on July 1 capitalism would collapse in 24 hours unless a world war had begun by then--since neither option has materialized, the NCLC must have a new analysis. They've also turned very pro-Soviet lately as a result of a pact they've signed with the Iraqul government. My felling on this is that the NCLC likes the Iraql government because it was the only one that would pay attention to the NCLC, even at one point inviting some of its members on a state tour of Iraq...
When the maneuvering and posturing came to an end-at least for the time being-an agreement had been hammered out between the city and most of the unions. The pact provided not exactly a wage freeze, as Big Mac had wanted, but rather a sort of partial freeze: a graduated deferral of the 5% to 6% pay raise that had taken effect July 1. It would be put off until the end of fiscal 1978 and then would be granted only if the city's budget is balanced and if its bonds are being accepted by investors...
PIQUE DAME. This is another mar velous blend of the Tchaikovsky-Push kin talents telling the unhappy tale of an obsessive gambler named Hermann who makes a pact with the dead to win a for tune. The singing on the first night (again Atlantov, Mazurok and Milash-kina) was excellent, but here, as on sev eral other occasions, the real stars were Conductor Yuri Simonov, 34, and his powerhouse orchestra, who seize upon each moment of melodrama. "Whatever is written in the score should be heard," says Simonov, echoing his idol, the late Arturo Toscanini. That goes for voices...